<div dir="ltr">Thanks Andrew, I'll revisit those options. It's been a while since I decided to just pass through the mouse directly, and I forget exactly which ones I tried. And, naturally, I didn't take careful notes.<div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 11:27 PM, Andrew Morgan <<a href="mailto:andrew.morgan4453@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.morgan4453@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hey Will, I'm unable to test those symptoms on my own instance (a future post will explain why), however there's a couple features of Synergy that you might want to know about that may help you and others. The mouse can be locked to a particular screen using scoll-lock, preventing it from escaping to a different monitor. Additionally, one can enable the " relativeMouseMoves" option on the server, setting the speed of the mouse relative to the current OS. Rumor has it that running Synergy in elevated mode also allows the mouse to move once it reaches the edge of the screen. Check out the Synergy User Guide for more info: <a href="https://github.com/synergy/synergy/wiki/User-Guide" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/synergy/synergy/wiki/User-Guide</a> As you mentioned Will, virt-manager's feature of passing the USB device in on the fly is quite useful, however in the situation that you perhaps want to play a game, pause, then change your music on your Host OS, and go back to your game, passing through the USB devices makes this much more of a hassle. Synergy seems to handle this as if the two OS's were simply two monitors of the same OS. As a sidenote, Synergy seems to work best in an environment where you have your Host OS and Guest VM running on separate monitors at the same time. If you are in the situation where each of your graphics card outputs feed into different inputs of a single monitor, USB passthrough is probably more ideal as you'll only ever be seeing a single OS at a time. Andrew Morgan <div><div> On 8/15/15 10:13 PM, Will Marler wrote: > Hey Jose, > > In my experience, Synergy is more than good enough for a 1st-person shooter as far as latency goes. I ran into other problem. It seems like when a game takes over full-screen in Windows, the mapping of one unit of movement of the mouse to one unit of movement on the screen becomes ... funky. For me, Skyrim was the best example. In Skyrim, one fractional physical move of my mouse moved the cursor 150 or 200 pixels on the screen. This made the game unplayable. I've experienced the same thing in Bioshock Infinite and Metro 2033 to varying degrees. For those latter 2 games I was able to get the games playable enough using mouse sensitivity settings (in Windows and in the games themselves), but for Skyrim I wasn't (granted, I didn't try as hard with Skyrim). > > Another problem I've had is that Synergy seems to be bounded by a box, when playing a full screen game. What I mean by that is that when I use the mouse to turn the character, it will only go so far. As if the character can only turn his head so far to the left. This happens both left, right, up, and down. It's not a dealbreaker when playing the single-player FPS's that I mentioned, but I imagine it would be if you were playing something competitively multiplayer. > > The third problem I had was when I was using Windows 7. For some reason, Windows 7 would decided it couldn't boot, and go into a recovery mode. This recovery mode would require a keypress or mouse clicks to exit; once exited the VM would boot just fine. Unfortunately, Synergy wouldn't be running at this stage, so passing through a USB mouse directly was the only option. Windows 10 has yet to give me this problem. > > Passing through a USB mouse is very easy using virt-manager. It can be done on the fly, with a running VM, and it has the advantage of Windows detecting it (I have a gaming mouse with a number of buttons and settings and Windows picks all this up when the mouse is passed through directly, but doesn't when Synergy is involved). The downside, of course, is that once you click "apply," you no longer have use of that mouse in your host : ). For that, I have a 2nd mouse, whose purpose is simply to interact with the host, if that is necessary, while the guest is running. I still am using Synergy for the Keyboard. > > Will > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Jose Ramon Muñoz Pekkarinen <<a href="mailto:koalinux@gmail.com" target="_blank">koalinux@gmail.com</a> </div></div><mailto:<a href="mailto:koalinux@gmail.com" target="_blank">koalinux@gmail.com</a>>> wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > Thanks for your answer! I didn't know about the arch wiki you pointed. It's yet another great resource from the arch community. > > I have a couple of questions though. Is synergy responsive enough to play something time demanding, lets say a shooter? Is there any way to avoid using the bridged mode networking? > > Thanks! > > José. > ------------------------- > From: Andrew Morgan <mailto:<a href="mailto:andrew.morgan4453@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.morgan4453@gmail.com</a>> > Sent: ‎15/‎08/‎2015 14:27 > To: <a href="mailto:vfio-users@redhat.com" target="_blank">vfio-users@redhat.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:vfio-users@redhat.com" target="_blank">vfio-users@redhat.com</a>> > Subject: Re: [vfio-users] alternative to input passthrough > > > Check out Synergy, it allows control of the mouse and keyboard input > without having to passthrough the devices. Guide here: > <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF#Control_VM_via_Synergy" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF#Control_VM_via_Synergy</a> > > ------- > > Hi, > > I'm using vga passthrough so much nowadays, and I wonder if > there is any > better option than passing through the usb devices to the machine, > like using > vnc, or the brand new virtio keyboard and mouse coming in 2.4 version. > > The setup in my case is working quite well but from time to > time, the vm > hangs without any option to go back to the host, and I'd like to > improve this > at some point. > > Best regards. > > José. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > vfio-users mailing list > <a href="mailto:vfio-users@redhat.com" target="_blank">vfio-users@redhat.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:vfio-users@redhat.com" target="_blank">vfio-users@redhat.com</a>> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users</a> > > </blockquote></div> </div></div></div>